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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Australian & Historical
• Sale Date:
  29 May 2021 ~ 11am (AEST) - Session 1: Lots 1 - 684
  30 May 2021 ~ 11am (AEST) - Session 2: Lots 685 - 1314
• Lot #:
  893
• Lot Description:
  LAURENCE GEORGE HATTON MARSHALL (1884 - 1966), Victorian Imperial Bushmens Regiment Trooper No.100
  Awarded the Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State & Transvaal. Pioneer Aviator and Politician. An archive containing: 1: Marshall’s Victorian Bushmens Regiment tunic with original brass buttons and chain-mail epaulettes. 2: A pocket-size “Book of Common Prayer” with the written dedication “To My dear Son Laurence on his Leaving for South Africa. April 28, 1900, E. Marshall”. 3: An original photograph (10 x 14.5cm) of Marshall together with another Victorian Bushman and a native tracker (in jacket & tie!). 4: Two letters home to his sweetheart; one from S.S.Victoria (21 May 1900), the other from Hillside Camp (13/3/01). 5: Marshall’s travelling writing slope containing his cigar cutter, a few coins, wooden souvenirs from South Africa, his “Description Card for Active Service”, a cinema advertising slide recommending Marshall for the Victorian Legislative Council and several original photographs. 6: Marshall’s South Africa Medals with ribbons and clasps. 7: A souvenir handkerchief depicting a map of South Africa, the words and music to “The Absent-Minded Beggar” by Arthur Sullivan and vignette portraits of Queen Victoria and Lord Roberts. 8: An original albumen photograph of the scene outside Flinders Street Station on the return of the Victorian Contingent. 14.5 x 20.5cm. 9: An original photograph of Marshall in the aircraft he constructed himself, preparing for a flight at Ivanhoe in February 1912. [See Brogden, Stanley “History of Australian Aviation” pp.26-27.] Also, the original printer’s block of the image. 10: Councillor L.G.H Marshall’s CITY OF COLLINGWOOD 9ct gold fob, engraved with his name and “ELECTED 23.8.24” and “MAYOR 1936-37”. 11: Cabin trunk emblazoned “W.E. MARSHALL”. 12: A framed portrait photograph in military uniform. 13: Replacement King’s South Africa Medal, with clasps for 1901 & 1902 not named!
• Notes:
  From being the youngest “man” to enlist for service in the Victorian Contingents to the Boer War, to his attempts to win the Commonwealth Government prize of £10,000 for the “production of a flying machine” to his later career as a Collingwood City councillor and Labor candidate for the Legislative Council, Marshall had a full and active life. Actually a butcher by trade, he died in 1966, aged 82.
• Estimate:
  A$2,000 - 3,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Militaria & Weapons

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